Mexic-Arte Museum

08/27/2026

As Viva la Vida anticipatingly approaches, here’s a concise explanation of the festival! Featuring photos over the years, gain a glimpse of what Viva la Vida has to offer ✨

If you’re a vendor and are interested in this event, vendor applications are open until TOMORROW! Make sure to apply using the form located on our website/in our bio 💃

08/25/2026

Mexic-Arte Museum is excited to share that almost all of our Summer Internship Cohort will be sticking around the museum for the fall semester! These students will continue to expand their knowledge and maximize their experiences at the museum as we prepare for multiple exhibitions and events this fall!

However, we do have one internship opening in the Digital Media Department this semester!
🔗Learn More and Apply: https://forms.gle/refg4LUb9ytNeKdQ9

Application Due Date: September 11, 2026
Pay rate: $22/hr
Must be a current undergrad student!

Thank you to the IMLS for the support on this initiative.

The Official Mexican & Mexican American Museum of Texas is dedicated to enriching the community through education programs, exhibitions, and the collection, preservation, and interpretation of Mexican, Latino, and Latin American art and culture for visitors of all ages.

08/11/2026

Hola again, it is Yana, Mexic-Arte Museum's August Changarrito Artist!

Mestizo, derived from the Latin mixticius, was used within the Spanish colonial casta system to denote a person of mixed ancestry. Within this race-based hierarchy, many descendants of these systems continue to struggle with questions of identity and belonging.
My zine, Mestizaje: Art and the Other (2026), explores the contradictions of a mixed identity through my perspective as an inhabitant of Central Texas. Navigating a culture influenced by white nationalism, I reflect on the absence of identity, the longing to reconnect, and the sometimes shame that can accompany that journey. I also share more about my Mestizos series and how it has become a means of reconnection.

I hope you enjoy this short read! Zines are noncommercial forms of publishing that entertain or inform audiences on specialized or unconventional subjects. Copies of this edition will be available at my cart this weekend, including a special fold-out poster (no peeking!). Hope to see you there!

🗓️August 15 & 16 and 22 & 23
🕕12 pm - 3 pm
📍Outside Mexic-Arte Museum, 419 Congress Ave

08/03/2026

Hola Mexic-Arte Museum and friends! My name is Yana, and I’m your Changarrito for the month of August ☀️

It’s good to be home! Born and raised in Buda, Texas, it feels like a full circle moment for me to be working with the museum that first introduced me to Latine art ❤️ I’m a painter and illustrator based in San Antonio, creating fantastical and colorful compositions that explore local and familial histories. Through my work, I trace how contemporary culture and social structure manifests over generations, each piece serving as a meditation on our connection to each other and the natural world.

Whether I’m in the gallery, leading workshops, or at local art markets, I’m always looking for ways to connect as an artist, educator, and friend.
I’m excited to share more about these mestizos, flora, and fauna later this month (zine style!) and to hopefully connect with you at the museum 🪷

🗓️August 15 & 16 and 22 & 23
🕕12 pm - 3 pm
📍Outside Mexic-Arte Museum, 419 Congress Ave

07/24/2026

Come visit Mexic-Arte Museum’s July Changarrito, Citlali Delgado, tomorrow at Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center from 10 am-3 pm and then here at the Mexic-Arte Museum on Sunday from 12 noon-3 pm.

Be sure to follow and check out her website to learn more about her work!

Check out Citlali's Full Changarrito Interview: https://vimeo.com/1212445727

07/22/2026

Participate in the Mu***os Mercado! Viva la Vida features over 20 Día de los Mu***os inspired artists, artisans, vendors, and makers! Mexic-Arte Museum is thrilled to invite vendors to take part in the annual Vida la Vida on Saturday, October 24th!

Mexic-Arte Museum’s 43rd Annual Viva La Vida Festival and Parade is Austin’s largest and longest-running Día de los Mu***os (Day of the Dead) event. The festivities begin with a Grand Procession at noon. Festival activities run until 6 p.m.🕯️

All merchandise must be Día de los Mu***os themed and artist made.
Imported goods are not accepted.

If selected, fees to participate are:
$120 - Artisan Vendor
$200 - Small Food Vendor
$500 - Food Truck/ Large Scale Food Vendor

Application🔗 https://forms.gle/gpjSSKEoxvFkAXi87

‼️DEADLINE TO APPLY IS AUGUST 28, 2026

*Acceptance into the Mu***os Mercado is contingent upon review by Mexic-Arte. Mexic-Arte Museum reserves the right to make the final determination of vendors.

07/21/2026

🐊Yo yo yo it's Citlali Delgado () again. I am in my last week as the Mexic-Arte’s Changarrito artist in residence for the month of July so please come visit me at the Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center this Saturday (10am-3pm) and at the Mexic-Arte Museum on Sunday (12-3pm).

In celebration, here are ten random facts about my art life!!! 😛

1. Studio time is sacred because not only do I get my art done but during the process, I dance hard, cry my eyes dry, and sing my heart out according to how I feel.
2. I am working on a mural about New Mexico icon Fabiola Cabeza de Baca for New Mexico State University.
3. I love bringing my dogs to the studio so they can keep me company
4. I am in my third month of being an artist in residence at the El Paso Border Art Residency (). I am learning the difficulty of what it is to be my own boss.
5. The Latinos Who Lunch podcast has been the BEST thing that has helped me think about my artwork in a way that university couldn’t. I highly recommend giving this Q***r, Latino ran art podcast a listen.
6. I listen to Hamilton too much in the studio. In the Heights as well.
7. I’ve started growing my armpit and leg hair out in an attempt to redefine my own femininity. You can see I’ve started painting women in my art with body hair too!
8. My favorite painting ideas come to me in visions at night when I've finished doom scrolling and am about to fall asleep.
9. My favorite places to take photo references are at kermeses (outdoor carnival-style fiestas usually hosted for church charity fundraisers). I am not religious but I highly enjoy these celebrations for the people, food, and dancing.
10. I love the performance of being an artist because I can go from looking greñuda, bare footed, and wearing dirty clothes painting in my studio to going to art openings being the fashionista that I always dreamed of.

It has been such a pleasure to have conversations with the locals of Austin and the ones who make the city great. I reflect on sharing my work outside of museum walls and in the public eye. I am finding joy in selling prints of my paintings for the first time because accessibility in my work has been long overdue. Please thank your local custodians for their services. Be kind to those who are different from you because this individualistic nation does not want to see that happen. Reconnect with the people that have shown you support. Call an aged woman beautiful today. You only live once so take care of yourself. I’ve been learning to do the same.

07/08/2026

🌟Yoooooo, it’s Citlali Delgado, July’s Changarrito artist in residence through the Mexic-arte Museum! Please come visit me at the following varying locations in Austin.☝🏽⬆️👆🏽💖

I’m a painter and muralist from El Paso, Texas with a BFA from New Mexico State University. Based in the borderlands, my paintings function to understand how I and my communities can live with, against, and past the border. I attended the Yale Norfolk School of Art residency program, I have collaborated with the Taco Bell Foundation, and I have work in the ENMU and the NMSU Museum permanent collections. I’ve exhibited at the El Paso Museum of Art Border Biennial, Museo de Arte de Ciudad Juárez Bienal Fronteriza, and the Ecos del Sol exhibition at the Museum of the Big Bend.

About my why…⬇️👇🏽

My paintings are ever reframing my testimonies as a Chicana in search of grieving and growth. Always concerned with the U.S./Mexico border, my understanding of regional complexity is always in orbit. When I paint, I am reevaluating the many nuances and fantasies others have of the desert and of what constitutes what Mexico, Texas, New Mexico, and the U.S. even is. Sometimes though, I find some fantasies to be of my own emergence.

I think about my site-specific presence as a maker, exhibitor, and institutional participant on top of my brownness through themes of politics of representation, tokenization, and erasure.

The land I belong to is to be respected for its history and then critically maintained through decolonizing, grieving, and healing. Trying to take care of the people I paint knowing the artistic agency my work does and does not have, I am to uncover ways in which my communities and I can live with, against, and past the border.

❤️‍🔥Visit my Website (artecitlali.com) for more info and come visit me at the following locations around Austin.

🐊Saturday, July 18: TBD
🌞Sunday, July 19: Mexic-Arte Museum
🫶🏽Saturday, July 25: TBD
💖Sunday, July 26: Mexic-Arte Museum

07/02/2026

Join Mexic-Arte Museum for Family Day with Artist Allison Lash, who will demonstrate techniques for weaving crafts and art objects. Participants will be able to create their own God's Eye (or Ojo de Dios), as well as try looming or weaving a fabric bracelet.

🗓️Sunday, July 12th | 1 – 4 pm
📍 419 Congress Ave
🚗Free street parking Downtown on Sundays
🔗Free RSVP: https://WeavingWithAllisonLash.eventbrite.com

🎟️Admission is FREE every Sunday thanks to HEB & Downtown Austin Alliance